Newspapers. Do You Get One? is a post by Carol Covin, a passionate polymath and a helluva blogger. She’s an author, a coder, a cancer researcher, a trainer of grandmothers, grandchildren (and those in between), a sharp observer of where we’ve been and where we are going…Nope. This is not going to get it. LetRead… Read more »
Zach Yates sent over a great quote leading to an amazing 2002 blog post, Taste for Makers It takes confidence to throw work away … When people first start drawing, they’re often reluctant to redo parts that aren’t right … they convince themselves that the drawing is not that bad, really — in fact, maybeRead… Read more »
A couple years ago, I was invited to speak at a law firm about the advantages of blogging. People had questions and I had stories so we were doing pretty well. Finally, one associate who wasn’t getting the answers he wanted, said it was all hopeless. It was not legal for lawyers to blog. Disarray.Read… Read more »
I see three levels of integrity. Soon after someone learns that integrity is keeping your promises, they reason that if they don’t make any promises, they can have perfect integrity. Then they discover nobody cares. Some never go beyond. The next step is to make and keep appropriate promises, depending on what you can handleRead… Read more »
Fred Wilson of AVC – Musings of a VC In NYC has a great post, The Fred Wilson School of Blogging. He has old truths and new ideas, and details to check to make sure I am doing them. Then I started to think about my School of Blogging. I’ve convinced a number of smartRead… Read more »
Guest Post by Dana Blankenhorn I first met Dana Blankenhorn when I left enterprise software and was building an open source company. He was blogging about open source and two out of three of his posts I had to implement immediately. He was my teacher-from-the-cloud for over a year. He is still the only personRead… Read more »
Jeff Cole recommended Wayne Breitbarth’s The Power Formula For LinkedIn Success, so I read it. Took about 90 easy minutes. I have written about improving LinkedIn profiles and given some presentations, so I was interested in how Wayne would approach it. The good news he is concentrating so hard on being useful, his beliefs don’tRead… Read more »
Aol. gave out T shirts with a one foot QR code (one of those square black and white bar-codes that looks like a maze) on the front. I was wearing mine when Jeremy, a cashier at Trader Joe’s, snapped a picture with his phone and showed me the website that came up, while he wasRead… Read more »
The opposite of love is indifference. At least with hate I’ve been noticed. I was working at a large tech meeting, observing the different sales folk. The most successful ones, the ones creating interest, were scrambling to support the meeting, ostentatiously taking action to move the meeting forward. They had people inquiring about what elseRead… Read more »
I read two strong books last week, and when someone remarked on the quality of my recommendations, I thought I remembered they were found on a blog post. Sure enough, they were the first two picks on Seth Godin’s Summer Reading List. Steven Pressfield’s The Profession is a near future social fantasy, much like Makers.Read… Read more »